Motivational Quotes

Ideas

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

- Emile Chartier

Best Quotes about Ideas

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas won't work unless you do.